You’ve read the site.
You know about the crimes. You
smell the scent of fascism in the air…
There is a moment that must, and can, be seized ( NOW.
There are people who want to act ( NOW.
Reach them. Change
your routine, for a week, and reach them.
Change the direction of history. Before it’s too late.
If you are a lawyer, write an e-mail to every lawyer in your
city ( TODAY. Tell them how that the
FISA scandal, the Alito nomination, the torture revelations ( all this demands
that we meet and act. Send them the
Call. Give them a place to go that can
hold hundreds. Bring materials. Debate, discuss and let them roll…
If you are a teacher, e-mail every teacher you know. Get your union lists and send it out to
thousands. Call a citywide emergency
meeting. Get the word out on teach-ins
on the 31st. Tell them to spread the
word in their schools ( to their students, to other teachers)
If you’re a student, get the flyer out to your whole school,
call a meeting and make plans to spread this to your school and every other
school)
If you’re a clergyperson, read the quote from Martin
Niemoller again and then figure out how to use your pulpit to deal with the
crossroads we stand at)
If you’re a writer, write.
If you are a public speaker ( if you have access at all to the media (
speak.
If you ‘know someone who knows someone’ talk to them)
And so on down the line)
If you are not in a local chapter, join one. If they don’t answer, if they are too
overloaded, download materials from this site, get them out, and keep calling until
you get through. Don’t wait.
Once you do get through, help them by phone-banking, by
selling bus tickets, by delivering materials, by raising money, by coordinating
transportation, by helping to plan the rally.
Mass sentiment is not enough ( there must be organization! Help these folks rise to the challenge.
What you don’t know, learn.
What you can’t learn, make up along the way. That’s how history gets made, from the bottom
up.
If there is no chapter, start one.
Make sure there is somewhere to come to every night, a place
to meet or just for people to pick up new flyers and report in, and make sure
people know about it ( run announcements and ads on the radio, get this on to
Craig’s List, Myspace, and everywhere else you can think of. People are ready to hear this ( get it to
them.
Put the call up everywhere you go ( your cleaner, the
coffee-shop you go to in the morning, the laundromat, the supermarket, the
deli, your church or mosque or synagogue, that restaurant you eat at all the
time, the bar you drink at. . . drop off copies of it . . . talk to people. . .
It IS really true: THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT!